As of July 2026, The Loner Season 1 aired in 1965 with 26 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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The Loner Season 1

1965 26 Episodes Western ⭐ 6/10

If you want a drama that takes its characters as seriously as its plot, The Loner Season 1 is available on streaming right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. Its 6/10 TMDB score, built from 4 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Lloyd Bridges sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

The Loner Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The Loner Season 1 trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. Season 1 of The Loner includes 26 episodes. It aired from September 1965 to March 1966. This season stars Lloyd Bridges. Lloyd Bridges leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1965. The Loner Season 1 resists tidy resolutions in a way that respects how messy real consequences actually are. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, The Loner Season 1 delivers. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Lloyd Bridges's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

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🎬 The Loner Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
An Echo of Bugles
1965-09-18
A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.
E2
The Vespers
1965-09-25
Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.
E3
The Lonely Galico Queen
1965-10-02
A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.
E4
The Kingdom of McComb
1965-10-09
Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.
E5
One of the Wounded
1965-10-16
Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.
E6
The Flight of the Artic Tern
1965-10-23
Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.
E7
Widow on the Evening Stage
1965-10-30
Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.
E8
The House Rules at Mrs. Wayne's
1965-11-06
While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.
E9
The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing
1965-11-13
Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.
E10
The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove
1965-11-20
Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.
E11
Westward, the Shoemaker
1965-11-27
When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.
E12
The Oath
1965-12-04
When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.
E13
Hunt the Man Down
1965-12-11
Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.
E14
Escort for a Dead Man
1965-12-18
A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.
E15
The Ordeal of Bud Windom
1965-12-25
A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.
E16
To the West of Eden
1966-01-01
While traveling across the desert to deliver horses to their new owner, Colton reluctantly agrees to escort a young woman across the arid land.
E17
Mantrap
1966-01-08
Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.
E18
A Little Stroll to the End of the Line
1966-01-15
Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.
E19
The Trial in Paradise
1966-01-22
Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.
E20
A Question of Guilt
1966-01-29
In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.

🎭 Cast of The Loner Season 1

Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
William Colton

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